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Re: Wireless Connection Problems

I'm fairly new to backtrack but I'll try to help.

when backtrack starts up type the following:

/usr/bin/start-network
startx

That will start "Wicd" network manager.

When the GUI starts up, you'll see a little network icon in the taskbar, click on it. In the window that opens up, you can hit "refresh" if needed to scan for your AP. When it finds it, you can click the little arrow below it to get to prefrences. From there you can select encryption type such as wep or wpa, ect and enter your key there. That should fix you up. If not you might have to play around with the preferences in wicd a bit. Hopefully this helps.

Re: Wireless Connection Problems

What wireless card/chipset are you using.

What type of encryption are you using on your network?
For WEP use iwconfig 'insert interface here' enc ********** or iwconfig 'insert interface here' key **********
For WPA you will need to use WPA_supplicant